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NetVibes personal portal page
This has been getting a lot of buzz lately -- NetVibes is another personal portal in the vein of Google personalized home and Microsoft's Start page. You can syndicate RSS feeds in drag and droppable DIVs, embed a search widget, and get a preview pane for your Gmail account. One notably handy addition is the ability to add notes to a page, which adds some of the flavor of Protopage to the mix. I won't be too surprised if we keep seeing more of these gloriously AJAX-ified personal portal page offerings.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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nymph3tamine said 8:07PM on 9-26-2005
Opera and Safari support to come ...
*sigh*
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Brian Pipa said 9:12AM on 9-27-2005
Good to see you fixed your RSS feed so it would work with Netvibes and the google start page.
brian
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Fabian said 10:09AM on 9-27-2005
feeds from weblogs.inc seem to be not working for me. I can see the preview all right, but when I add them to my page they stay on "loading" forever...
...damn and I thought I'd finally have a nifty start-page to go :-(
Oh yeah and a nuisance many cool ajax-sites have: I'm not able to use tabbed browsing in firefox (because the middle-click does not work as usual).
...oh and for some strange reason netvibes is constantly asking me for username and password for https://blogger.com - whenever I try to add a new feed to my page, or when the page first loads. Even when I'm just adding my del.icio.us bookmarks or some such blogger-unrelated stuff...
...so right now, I'd say it's pretty much an alpha judging from these bugs. I'll try it a bit further, and hope it can be improved. I'd really love the service - because frankly the personalized google page didn't do it for me.
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